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and so an era comes to an end this December

If only it could have lasted longer

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any trans girl artist recommendations?

Ah Mer Ah Su - the stage name of Star Amerasu. Her music style has been described as electropop and poptronic. Her music covers subject matter from failed relationships to drug abuse. She released her first full length album “Star” this year and has definitely earned her pop princess title.

Itsbambii - Youtuber and Hiphop/Rap artist. Her first album “Clean & Clear” was released last year and “My LGBT Story” is a must listen.

Kim Petras - This German pop artist has yet to release an album or EP, but has released 3 amazing singles this year. She says she draws inspiration for her music from early 00s pop and 1980s italo disco. She was covered extensively by the media after transitioning at a young age and has said she wants people to focus on her music, not her.

Quay Dash - This hiphop/rap artist has a whole amazing EP titled “Transphobic.” She’s said “I think talking about transgender issues (in her music) is important, but at the same time i’m here to make my music and do what I have to do. Her music is brazen and unapologetic and we all know lady rappers are the best rappers.

Shea Diamond - Pop/Soul singer who began performing at trans music festivals after her incarceration in a mens correctional facility. She released her first EP “Seen it all” this year, and “I am her” is a lovely and empowering track.

Miss Blanks - Australian hiphop/rap artist who’s spoken out about the sexism and double standards in Australia’s rap scene. In her words Miss Blank is “Unapologetic, fierce, and petty.” Her latest single “Good Good D” was released this year.

Sateen - The band name of Exquisite (a trans lesbian woman) and her wife Queen Sateen. The lesbian queer disco duo first got famous as a “het drag couple” in the New York queer scene. They released their self titled EP just last year.

Peppermint - the stage and drag name of Agnes Moore. She creates dance/electronica/house/and homo hop music. She was the first trans woman to ever be out prior to her appearance on Rupaul’s Drag Race. She’s collaborated on a bunch of new singles this year, and released her debut album last year!

She/Her/Hers - The stage name of folk punk artist Emma Grrrl. She just released her first album “Grrrl Angst” this year! “Gender is boring” is very catchy.

SOPHIE - Scottish Synth/“Hyperkinetic” pop artist and producer. Her debut album “Oil of every pearl’s un-insides” was released this year! She uses the Elektron Mononachine to create sounds similar to latex, bubbles, and plastic in her music.

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BLACK-OWNED ALTERNATIVES TO DOLLS KILL

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#im.....

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As a Canadian, what's your impression of what Americans are like? Since you said 'American' drowns out everything else as an identity component. I wanna compare notes.

ho boy absolutely nothing positive will come of this ask but ok sure here we go

the first word that comes to mind is "un-empathetic". Now I need to make this exceedingly clear: i am talking about the american so called left, the guys who vote blue, the guys who, particularly, exist in the same social spaces as I do. Theoretically. I make a point to say this because I say "americans" and people go "oh surely she means the republicans" and like no I don't I mean the guys who are supposed to be on the same side as I am, because if I was talking about the republicans I'd just say ABSOLUTELY UNHINGED

so, americans. man, americans are self-centered as FUCK. You can see it on the little things. If you're on a server with like 500 people from all over the world and someone asks what's your height, not only do americans answer in feet, everyone else does too for the sake of their comfort. "Only I use feet in the planet and yet everyone caters to me."

If I was ever to start a post about, say, Luciano Huck, who is a guy pretty much every brazilian knows, I'd start it with "So there's this guy who is a famous TV host..." But an american can and will start a post that goes "WE SHOULD MOBILIZE AGAINST BOB MCJOHNSON" and never once for a fucking second have the courtesy of even explaining who the fucking dude is, because hey, I gotta know, right? A post about Brazil starts with "In brazil...". A post about the USA starts with "THIS NATION"

I think I only truly realized the extent of this self centeredness when we had a disaster very near me and I posted about it and it got ignored over a trump tweet. Americans will go "well you can't expect me to have the energy for every disaster in the WORLD" but then fill every single pore of the internet, news and social media with news about their california fire when the pantanal in brazil has been burning so much, we've lost nearly 20% of the ecosystem and my dad can't breathe because of his asthma.

And that's just the thing - they take and they take and they TAKE but when the time comes you realize they won't as much as throw a look your way. Hey true, no one has the energy to carry the world on their back. But you know what? When I turn on the TV and I see there was a quake in mexico, the first thing I think about is "hey, some people I know live there. Even if we haven't talked in a while, I should check on them." Because I care. It doesn't have to be a huge tumblr SOS post. Just one fucking text - "I heard there was a quake. Are you okay?"

americans, save for very few exceptional people I've met, will make you feel like you're fucking invisible. And that's the worst feeling in the world. You know how many USA people have asked me whether I'm safe from the pantanal fires? Maybe two or three. You know how many americans I exchange regular conversation with, people who I, in turn, would ask whether they are safe in face of disaster? Yeah. More than two or three.

meanwhile my friends from other places don't always get the news - third world only makes headlines when someone is profiting from it - but when they do, they IMMEDIATELY go "Brazil was on the news, how are you??"

like seriously I don't think I'll ever get over the heartbreak of publicly talking about a huge problem so close to me that it directly involved me on a server, with people I cared for, and having it be completed ignored except for a couple europeans and latinos who actually took the time to go "sorry for your loss". that's it. that's all I needed.

americans are also immensely unsafe to be around. there's a paulo freire quote that applies well here, and you know what, I'm not gonna fucking explain who paulo freire is either. The quote is "When education is not freeing, the oppressed dreams of becoming the oppressor."

and that's how social movement spaces that are USA-majority feel. Americans feel, and I'm gonna get heat for this, but americans feel like fucking cops. I'll talk about the LGBT spaces because those are the ones I'm most inserted into, but this generally applies everywhere - they'll assume their experiences are universal and you have to fall in line and will jump at any chance to tear you down.

Like. We are not socially at the same situation. Not all concepts apply equally. I do not UNDERSTAND all concepts. I have my own struggles with abstraction. And mistakes are human and everyone makes them.

But when faced upon a mistake, you can choose to take the role of the educator or the role of the enforcer, and by god do americans choose the latter most of the time. And you know, you don't have to fucking be an educator all the time, but combing though people's words in the search of minimal mistakes so you can take the satisfaction sending them a violent, cruel message because you feel like you have a moral high ground? That's. That's not fighting the enemy. That's... a cop. That's a cop searching your car for a broken taillight so they can escalate this into an arrest, not because they want to make the world a safer place, but because they wanna fuck you up, because they feel entitled to this power. Except you and the cop come from the same place, and the big bad guys are looking at you two fight and laughing.

And that's what it all boils down to - the entitlement. I don't post the hate I get. But dude. I'm a gay ass latina living in a messed up country struggling with my mental health. I have been through Some Shit. And it fucking hurts to get people going "I think you're a shit doctor and I hope you lose your license" because you know what? People like me aren't usually doctors to start with. I struggle with that thought every single fucking day. People will go "I wish law/healthcare/etc was more diverse" and then immediately, upon meeting a minimally diverse person, feel entitled to treat them not as actual human beings, but as entities from which you demand unachievable moral perfection based on USA standards, giving no space to learn either.

Americans feel entitled to my life story, and if I don't promptly give it to prove whatever the fuck, then they feel entitled to be brutally emotionally violent towards me. I would never fucking address another human being with the tone, the cruelty, the sheer entitlement, the desire to harm in the most personal, hurtful way the way I've been addressed here. American centered movements do not include me. There's no space in the USA-LGBT movement for me at all, I'm not represented by it, my friends from the third world are not represented by it, we don't feel safe sharing our experiences, we don't feel included, we feel POLICED far more often than included, we don't feel like we MATTER. We are. Invisible. And silenced. Again.

And calling a movement global is nothing short of a hypocritical way of going "I hope the whole planet cares about this thing in the United States, but I sure as hell won't acknowledge the role of the USA in putting the most violently cruel people in power - people that will cause this exact same problem, but elsewhere, so none of my business and I'll ignore it over a trump tweet."

anyway that's the tea basically

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*smacks you over the head with a poorly put-together history textbook I made in crafts* LEARN BISEXUAL HISTORY BEFORE YOU ACT KNOWLEDGABLE

“Bisexual—being emotionally and physically attracted to all genders.” - GLSEN in fucking 1998

“Do not assume that bisexuality is binary or duogamous in nature […] In fact, don’t assume that there are only two genders.” 1990 Bi Manifesto

“But there are also many bis, such as myself, for whom gender has no place in the list of things that attract them to a person.“ 2002

“Bisexual people are those for whom gender is not the first criteria in determining attraction.” 2003

“Assuming that all bisexuals are never attracted to trans or genderqueer folk is harmful, not only to bi individuals, but to trans and genderqueer individuals who choose to label themselves as bi.”

“Bisexual: A person who is attracted to people regardless of gender (a person does not have to have a relationship to be bisexual!)” 2003

“These data support the argument that, for some bisexual individuals, sexual attraction is not gender-linked.” 1992

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How Big Oil lied about "recyclable" plastics

Exxon knew.

They knew, 50 years ago, that they were going to murder the planet and our species with their oil.

And they acted.

Oh, how they acted!

They created a campaign of lies to distort the public perception of climate change.

https://exxonknew.org/

Exxon knew.

They knew in ‘73, when their researchers told them: plastics would never be recycled. There would not be a cost effective way to recycle plastic.

And they acted.

They created a disinformation campaign to convince us plastic COULD be recycled.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

That campaign - the little recycling logos on our plastics, the upbeat videos about a future where plastic was part of a circular economy of use and recycling - convinced us to buy, wash, and sort plastic.

90% of that plastic was never recycled. It never will be.

NONE of those splashy campaigns - the announcement that all NYC school plastics would be recycled, the recycling in national parks - ever worked. They all lasted long enough to get some upbeat press, and then they quietly shut down.

This week’s NPR/Planet Money investigation by Laura Sullivan doesn’t just talk to the ex-chief lobbyists, now serving as belated Oppenheimers, lamenting the impending destruction of our planet.

It also talks to the current round of executives who have announced a fresh round of plans to recycle plastics - completely disingenuous, insultingly obvious distraction tactics to convince us that their projections of TRIPLING production by 2050 isn’t a form of mass murder.

Then Sullivan circles back to those retired executives, the ones who oversaw the first disinformation campaign, and they confirm that this latest round of promises are literally the same tactic, barely updated for a world on fire.

The world is on fire. My sky has been orange all week. Our family’s socially distanced meetings with friends in parks or back yards have been cancelled because we cannot breathe outside.

Exxon - and Chevron, and the rest of Big Oil - knows.

In a secret recording released to the New York Times, oil execs meet to cheerfully discuss how they will burn the world and murder us all but make a buck in the process.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/methane-natural-gas-flaring.html

Their plans for climate change don’t involve reducing emissions - they’re building bunkers and hiring mercenaries to keep us at bay when we come for them. They know what they’ve done.

Exxon knows.

Exxon knows.

When I searched for the “Exxon Knew” campaign to find a link for this piece, the top of Google’s search results included a blisteringly expensive ad for a disinformation site, paid for by Exxon.

The sky is orange. The oceans are choking. The air is unbreathable. Your body is full of microplastics.

Exxon.

Fucking.

Knows.

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Sky puppies

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People who ‘like politics’ are in it for the wrong reasons like 99% of the time.

#there's a big difference between people who likes to debate like read about dictatorships #and people who are involved with politics because they have to be informed due to like risk of losing rights and shit #a bunch of the people who are just in it for the lulz have nothing to lose

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yeah :(

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A human rights group at the University of Toronto is calling for a ban on tear gas as a riot control agent, arguing police often misuse the chemical weapon and that it can often harm peaceful protesters or innocent bystanders.  

In a report released Thursday, the University of Toronto’s International Human Rights Program (IHRP) calls for all levels of government to issue legislation banning the use of tear gas, to destroy current stockpiles of the chemical weapon and to halt all imports, exports and manufacturing of it.

“It has an inherently indiscriminate effect and is really abused against peaceful assemblies and against vulnerable populations,” Vincent Wong, a research associate at the IHRP and co-author of the report, told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview.

[…]

In June, NDP MP Matthew Green began a petition to ban the use and manufacturing of tear gas in Canada, which has since amassed more than 9,300 signatures. The deadline for signature is Sept. 8.

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

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This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.

That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.

This is why we download. 

 Alternatives to buying overpriced textbooks

Textbooknova 

Reddit

Bookboon 

Textbookrevolution 

GaTech Math Textbooks

Ebookee 

Freebookspot 

Free-ebooks

Getfreeebooks 

BookFinder

Oerconsortium 

Project Gutenberg

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CIS PEOPLE ARE SO UNREAL BRO……..i made a “im epic and sexy and my meat is huge” joke to one of my cis friends and she just said “well youre trans so you dont HAVE meat” like ok….first of all its a joke and second of all its a joke

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what is it about having anxiety that makes you so insane. like every time i go to my job where i work i expect someone to tell me to leave. like i walk in and im like well i bet im not supposed to be here. even though all signs point to me needing to be there

#lol #fml